[JAVA] /bin/sh portability issues in gen-classlist.sh.in

[Eric Botcazou]

> I'm reminded that the GCC Development Mission Statement, explicitly
> states "to ensure that GCC ... works on multiple architectures and
> diverse environments".  http://gcc.gnu.org/gccmission.html

Sure, GCC works just fine on Solaris with /bin/ksh.

> However, knowing that /bin/sh has been a bane of the GCC build system
> for many years, I was surprised at how easy the port was.  GCC 3.4.3 built
> out of the box, and mainline three stage bootstrapped the compilers and
> built most of the runtime libraries only to fail in multilibed boehmgc
> and libjava.

On how many versions of Solaris?

> Running "what /bin/sh" on my Solaris/x86 box shows that the executable
> is dated 1st October 2005.  Perhaps after nearly/over? ten years of
> brokeness SUN's code is now stable enough for GCC to meet them half
> way?

AFAIK Sun has essentially pledged to keep /bin/sh bug-compatible with earlier 
releases so I wouldn't depend on that.

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Eric Botcazou